Slovenian live captions and productivity tool for doctor appointments
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Slovenian doctor appointments
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Slovenian speakers.
Follow what the doctor says in real time
- Captions appear word by word as they speak
- Handles medical terminology, drug names, and clinical language
- Place the phone on the desk — no setup needed
- Works in any consultation room, clinic, or hospital setting
When the doctor speaks another language
- Captions and translates in real time
- Follow your diagnosis in the language you understand best
- 60+ languages, no manual switching
- For foreign specialists, travel, or immigration settings
A full record of the consultation
- Record the appointment and upload it for a complete transcript
- Review instructions, drug names, and follow-up steps at home
- Share with a family member or carer if needed
- Works on any consultation recording
Key instructions extracted automatically
- Diagnosis, medication, and follow-up steps pulled from any transcript
- Organised into clear sections
- Nothing important missed or forgotten
- Works on any saved appointment recording
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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
At a zdravstveni dom (health centre) in Ljubljana, Maribor, or a smaller občina, your zdravnik explains symptoms and treatment in Slovenian. Captio AI captions every word so you follow the full consultation.
At a specialist appointment at Univerzitetni klinični center Ljubljana or a regional bolnišnica, medical terminology arrives in formal Slovenian. Captio AI captions in real time so you follow every detail.
At the lekarna (pharmacy), the farmacevt explains dosage and drug interactions quickly. Point your phone toward them and read the instructions as they speak.
At the zobozdravnik (dental clinic), the dentist gives instructions during treatment when lip-reading is impossible. Captio AI captions from audio alone.
In a session with a psiholog or psihiater, sensitive conversations require full comprehension. Captio AI captions the full session so you engage without gaps.
At the urgentni center (emergency department), staff speak quickly under pressure. Open Captio AI and read their instructions in real time.
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Built for the conversations where every word matters
Captions as the doctor speaks
Words appear on screen while the doctor is still talking. You read the diagnosis, drug name, or follow-up instruction at the same moment it is said — not after they have moved on.
Medical terminology handled accurately
Drug names, procedure names, clinical terms. Captio AI handles the vocabulary of a real consultation — not just everyday speech.
Review the appointment after
Record the consultation and upload it to Audio Transcription. Get a full written record of everything said — instructions, dosages, referrals — to review at home and share with a carer if needed.
Works in any clinical setting
Consultation rooms, hospital wards, A&E, dental chairs, pharmacy counters. Place the phone near the speaker and Captio AI captions whoever is talking.
Any language
For foreign-language doctors, specialists abroad, or appointments through an interpreter. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so you follow your diagnosis in the language you understand best.
100% private
Medical conversations are among the most sensitive there are. Captio AI processes audio in real time and discards it immediately. Nothing is recorded, stored, or shared.
Why Slovenian is hard to understand
Extreme dialect fragmentation
- Slovenia has more dialect diversity per capita than almost any European country
- Slovenian is spoken across seven major dialect groups — Gorenjska, Dolenjska, Štajerska, Koroška, Primorska, Notranjska, and Panonska — each with distinct vowel qualities, consonant realisations, and prosodic patterns. Standard Slovenian is a taught variety distinct from all of them. A deaf or hard of hearing patient who lip-reads Standard Slovenian encounters medical staff from across this dialect landscape producing different mouth shapes for the same clinical vocabulary — more inter-dialect variation per geographic area than in any neighbouring language.
Pitch and vowel length
- Slovenian contrasts vowel length and pitch in ways invisible on the lips
- Some Slovenian dialects preserve a pitch accent system, and Standard Slovenian contrasts vowel quantity in specific environments. These distinctions — length and pitch — are entirely auditory and produce no visible lip shape difference. In clinical vocabulary where these contrasts carry meaning, a deaf patient lip-reading Slovenian misses phonological information that native hearing speakers take for granted.
Dual number
- Slovenian's dual number creates word forms that differ from singular and plural
- Slovenian is one of the few European languages that retains a grammatical dual — a distinct form for exactly two of something. In clinical contexts, a doctor discussing a pair of conditions, two medications, or bilateral findings uses dual verb and noun forms that do not appear in neighbouring Slavic languages. A deaf patient lip-reading Slovenian encounters grammatical word-endings they have not trained for if their reference point is Serbian, Croatian, or any other modern Slavic language without the dual.
Schwa and vowel reduction
- Unstressed vowels reduce toward schwa in fast Slovenian speech
- In fast conversational Slovenian — the register a doctor shifts to for aftercare instructions — unstressed vowels reduce toward a neutral schwa position, syllables shorten, and word boundaries blur. The gap between the formal deliberate Slovenian used for diagnosis and the casual fast Slovenian used for 'take this twice a day' is substantial, and the latter is where a deaf patient's lip-reading accuracy is most likely to fail.
Primorska Italian contact
- Primorska Slovenian has Italian-influenced phonology unfamiliar to other lip-readers
- Primorska Slovenian — spoken in the Littoral region bordering Italy — shows strong Italian phonological influence: different vowel qualities, Italian loanwords used in everyday speech including for body parts and ailments, and prosodic patterns closer to Northern Italian than to Central Slovenian. A deaf patient from Ljubljana attending a clinic in Koper or Nova Gorica encounters a phonological profile that differs from both Standard Slovenian and anything else they have lip-read.
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Download on theApp StoreHearing loss in Slovenia: sign language recognised in 2002 and a community still navigating daily access
Slovenia formally recognised Slovenian Sign Language (SZJ — Slovenian: Slovenian žestovna jeziku) under the Act Regulating the Use of Slovenian Sign Language (ZGlS) in 2002 — among the earlier European sign language recognition laws. The law guaranteed deaf Slovenians the right to use sign language in educational, healthcare, and legal settings, and established a framework for interpreter training and provision. Slovenia has approximately 20,000 people with significant hearing loss in a country of 2.1 million, with a deaf signing community of several thousand.
Despite the 2002 recognition, practical access in healthcare settings reflects the gap between legal entitlement and implemented infrastructure found across Europe. Slovenia's Zavod za gluhe in naglušne Ljubljana (Institute for Deaf and Hard of Hearing) is the primary national institution supporting the community, but interpreter availability for routine medical appointments outside Ljubljana and Maribor is constrained by the small size of the certified interpreter workforce. For urgent appointments, a deaf patient may attend without communication support entirely. The Slovenian healthcare system — though generally of high quality — does not routinely provide on-call SZJ interpretation at every point of care.
Slovenia's extraordinary dialect diversity adds a specific challenge for deaf Slovenians who rely on lip-reading: the gap between the standard Slovenian they learned to lip-read and the dialect spoken by a clinician from a different region is often larger in Slovenian than in any neighbouring language. A deaf patient from Ljubljana attending a specialist in Maribor or Koper may find the doctor's phonological patterns substantially different from their reference point. Captio AI captions Slovenian in real time at any zdravstveni dom or klinični center, so every patient receives the doctor's words directly regardless of which Slovenian dialect the doctor speaks.
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Gone the moment it ends
Captio AI processes your audio in real time and discards it immediately. Nothing is recorded. Nothing is kept.
Not a product
Your conversations are not something Captio AI sells, shares, or monetizes — to anyone, for any reason.
Not used to train anything
What you say in a doctor's appointment or a job interview never ends up in a training dataset. Not ours. Not anyone else's.
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People love Captio AI
"My zdravnik at UKC Ljubljana uses formal Standard Slovenian for the diagnosis and switches to fast colloquial Slovenian for aftercare instructions. The vowels reduce entirely. Captio AI captions both registers and I follow every instruction the doctor gives."
"Maribor Slovenian — Štajerska dialect — sounds different from Ljubljana Slovenian. My cochlear implant struggles at the dialect boundary. Captio AI captions Štajerska Slovenian as well as Standard and I follow every specialist appointment in Maribor clearly."
"Primorska Slovenian in Koper has Italian-influenced pronunciation — completely different lip shapes from Ljubljana Slovenian. The doctor at the local bolnišnica was impossible to lip-read. Captio AI captions Primorska speech and I followed the full consultation."
"The lekarna in Kranj — Gorenjska dialect spoken fast. I missed half the drug warnings. Captio AI captions every word and I left knowing exactly what I needed to know about the prescriptions I was given."
"My zdravnik at UKC Ljubljana uses formal Standard Slovenian for the diagnosis and switches to fast colloquial Slovenian for aftercare instructions. The vowels reduce entirely. Captio AI captions both registers and I follow every instruction the doctor gives."
"Maribor Slovenian — Štajerska dialect — sounds different from Ljubljana Slovenian. My cochlear implant struggles at the dialect boundary. Captio AI captions Štajerska Slovenian as well as Standard and I follow every specialist appointment in Maribor clearly."
"Primorska Slovenian in Koper has Italian-influenced pronunciation — completely different lip shapes from Ljubljana Slovenian. The doctor at the local bolnišnica was impossible to lip-read. Captio AI captions Primorska speech and I followed the full consultation."
"The lekarna in Kranj — Gorenjska dialect spoken fast. I missed half the drug warnings. Captio AI captions every word and I left knowing exactly what I needed to know about the prescriptions I was given."
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